Dr. Portocarrero brings much experience to his new position, holding his Doctorate in Sociology from St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford. He received his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Dr. Portocarrero currently serves as Academic Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Politics and is Professor of Contemporary Social Thought and Sociology.  He is on the board of directors of ISTR and currently serving as the Co-Chair of the 2010 Conference Academic Committee.

Since 1992, he has been President of the University’s Editorial Fund. In the past, he also served as Director of the Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP). Dr. Portocarrero’s research focuses on issues related to philanthropic practices, social capital formation, voluntary behavior, and the presence of third sector organizations in civil society in Peru and Latin America.

The Opening Address of the Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research (ANZTSR) Ninth Biennial Conference (November 24-26, 2008) was given by Professor Brenda Gainer. Brenda is Director, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada and President-Elect of ISTR. Her address was titled, Third Sector Research: Pacific Contributions to the Wellbeing of People and Planet.

Congratulations to Eleanor Brown and James M. Ferris for winning the NVSQ Best Article Award at the 2008 ARNOVA Conference. The article, A Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering, appeared in NVSQ Volume 36: pp. 85-99; 2007.

The poster presentation by Dennis Young and Amanda Wilsker, both of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, won the Best Poster Award at ARNOVAs 37th Annual Conference.

Fredrik Andersson, Bloch School of Business & Public Administration at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; Lili Wang, Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University; and Naoko Okuyama, Osaka Universitys School of International Public Policy, received Emerging Scholars Awards at the ARNOVA Conference.

Suzanne Cook, University of Toronto, Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Department, was a participant at the ARNOVA Doctoral Fellows Seminar during the 2008 conference.

Eugene R. Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, will become president of the Indiana University Foundation on September 1, 2008. Tempel, who has led the Center since September 1997, played an integral role in envisioning and founding it a decade earlier and has been involved in its development throughout its 20-year history. Under his leadership, the Center has experienced substantial growth and made many important contributions to philanthropy education, research and practice. Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., director of research at the Center, will serve as its interim executive director.

The UK’s first dedicated research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) represents the first significant UK investment in research on the major issues affecting charitable giving and philanthropy. Co-Directors are Jenny Harrow and Cathy Pharoah. As Professor of Voluntary Sector Management in the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Cass Business School, Jenny Harrow leads the Centre’s research interests in voluntary and community sector organisations. She is also a member of the Faculty of Management’s Centre for Research in Corporate Governance. Jenny has held a range of London-based posts in the voluntary sector and is an active trustee board member of a South London university settlement and a grantmaking trust. Cathy Pharoah is Professor of Charity Funding at Cass Business School and also directs Third Sector Prospect research consultancy. Cathy has been involved in publishing key data on charitable giving in the UK for several years, and has just produced a new publication, the Charity Market Monitor 2008, which updates figures for all areas of UK philanthropy. She is Chair of the Advisory Group for the Northern Rock Foundation’s “Third Sector Trends Study,” a member of the OTS Steering Group for the Evaluation of Futurebuilders, board member and treasurer of the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN), and advisory board member of the Institute of Volunteering Research.

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Last October, for the first time, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and Cordaid held a prize competition to encourage scholarship regarding the legal and political environment for civil society, with a focus on civil liberties. While the competition drew a number of impressive manuscripts, Mark Sidel, ISTR’s president-elect, was awarded the “ICNL-Cordaid Civil Liberties Prize” for his manuscript, Counter-Terrorism, Civil Liberties and the Enabling Legal and Political Environment for Civil Society: A Comparative International Analysis of ‘War on Terror’ States. Oonagh Breen, a professor at the School of Law at University College Dublin, was honored for her manuscript, EU Regulation of Charitable Orginisations: The Politics of Legally Enabling Civil Society, and was granted a “Distinguished Research Award” on behalf of ICNL and Cordaid.

Alnoor Ebrahim will join the Harvard Business School faculty. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Dr. Ebrahim served as a Wyss Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School and as a Visiting Associate Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. His appointment will begin on July 1, 2008.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has namedDr. Eugene R. Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, a winner of the 2007 James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education. The Fisher Award is given for extraordinary service to education of national and/or international significance, beyond service to a single institution or state. According to CASE, Tempel is receiving the James L. Fisher Award for "serving as teacher and mentor to many in the advancement profession, and as a national leader in raising the status and visibility of the nonprofit community."

Gene Tempel is a nationally recognized expert in the study and practice of philanthropy and nonprofit management. He was deeply involved in the creation of the Center on Philanthropy and has served as its executive director since 1997. During the past two decades he has held numerous leadership positions for Independent Sector and with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, where he currently serves on the Ethics Committee. The NonProfit Times has named him to its list of the country's 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector each year since the list was created.  He has played significant roles in promoting professionalism in the field of development as well as developing the study of philanthropy as a rigorous academic discipline.

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As of January 2008, Alan Abramson will be stepping down as Director of the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program. At that time, he will become Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in northern Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.  At George Mason University, Alan will be the Department of Public and International Affairs' third, full-time faculty member in the nonprofit area, and will be working  to increase the university's teaching and research on nonprofit issues.  He will also be working with his George Mason colleagues to develop a new nonprofit research center at the university.

During Abramson's thirteen-year tenure at Aspen Institute=s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, including eleven years as program director, the program's Advisory Council, staff, and funders have helped to seed the nonprofit research field at universities across the country. Today, almost every major university has at least one faculty member -- if not a whole research center -- focusing on nonprofit issues. More recently, the program has concentrated on supporting strategic research on critical nonprofit issues (e.g., the impact of federal budget cuts on nonprofits, the contributions of foundations to our society, and the emergence of hybrid, double-bottom-line, "Fourth Sector" organizations), and is organizing an expanding number of leadership seminars for nonprofit and foundation executives and individual donors.  Alan will retain an affiliation with the Program.

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Steven Heydemann had been named Associate Vice President, Jennings Randolph Fellows Program, and Special Advisor, Muslim World Initiative, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts; promote post-conflict stability and development; and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.

Steven was formerly Director of The Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University.

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Angela M. Eikenberry is now Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  She can be reached by e-mail: aeikenberry@mail.unomaha.edu.  The website is http://spa.unomaha.edu

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Anabel Cruz, from Uruguay, was elected the new chair of the Board of CIVICUS. Anabel is an active ISTR member and the Founder Director of ICD (Communication and Development Institute), a research centre and NGO support organization in Montevideo, Uruguay.

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of members and partners which constitute an influential network of organizations at the local, national, regional and international levels, and span the spectrum of civil society, including: civil society networks and organizations; trade unions; faith-based networks; professional associations; NGO capacity development organizations; philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies; businesses; and social responsibility programs. CIVICUS had its 7th World Assembly in Glasgow from 23 to 27 May, with approximately 1000 delegates from more than 130 countries participating.

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Seven members of Japan’s Charity Commission have been appointed by Prime Minister Shinichiro Abe and authorized by the Diet on 21 February 2007. The seven members are:
Ms. Takako Amemiya, Professor of Civil Laws
Mr. Morio Ikeda, former President of the Shiseido Co., Ltd.
Mr. Toshimi Ouchi, Retired Appellate Judge
Mr. Masayuki Satake, CPA, Managing Director of the CPA Association of Japan
Ms. Takako Sodei, Professor of Sociology
Mr. Masayuki Deguchi, Professor of National Museum of Ethnology and a former President of ISTR
Mr. Tadatsune Mizuno, Professor of Tax Law

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The first endowed chair in fundraising has been established through a $1.5 million gift to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Adrian Sargeant, a leading international expert in fundraising research, will be the first scholar to hold the Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising. Sargeant’s areas of expertise include donor loyalty and retention, and the application of marketing principles to fundraising. In addition to holding the Hartsook Chair, Sargeant will become a full professor of nonprofit marketing in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and professor of Philanthropic Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Sargeant is currently professor of nonprofit marketing at the University of the West of England, adjunct professor of philanthropic studies at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and visiting professor of philanthropy at the Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

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Congratulations to 2006 ARNOVA Award recipients:
Elizabeth Boris of the Urban Institute, Washington, DC, received the award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. This award is given annually for significant and sustained contributions to the field through research and leadership. Nominees must have made significant achievement(s) in the field of nonprofit and voluntary action research and/or significant leadership achievements in the advancement and promotion of such research over an extended period of time.

Elisa Larroude, Fundacão Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil and Rachael Neal, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, were the recipients of Emerging Scholar Awards. These awards are designed to help develop the next generation of scholars, foster dissemination of research into practice, and enhance practitioner involvement in the creation of usable knowledge.

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Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Boeßenecker was selected as the new president of the University of Applied Sciences in the German Red Cross in Göttingen on 17 May 2006, replacing Professor Dr. Anton Hahne. As president of the University of Applied Sciences in the German Red Cross, Boeßenecker will be responsible for the division research and development.

Prior to this, he was professor for administration and organization science at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and the director of the Research Institute for Welfare Organisations/Social Economy. Boeßenecker is an associated member at the Center for Planning and Evaluation of Social Services at the University of Siegen and also professor for social management at the Masterprogram of Nonprofit Management and Governance at the University of Münster.

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Chandrakant Puri has been appointed Professor and Director, Centre for Distance Education of SNDT Woman’s University in Mumbai, India. The Centre’s motto is “Women’s Empowerment Through Open & Distance Learning for Higher Education.” It is a unique institution committed to the cause of women’s education and empowerment and is reaching 11,000 women every year by way of enrolling for various courses.

Dr. Puri is starting a few professional courses including LLM, M. Com, and BCA along with a few courses aimed at empowering women. Most importantly, she is taking the university to doorsteps and has started conducting admission camps in the slums of Mumbai. This activity is very unique and will make it a people centered university.

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Jacqueline Butcher, a Board member of ISTR, has been appointed President of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI) for the period 2006- 2008 (www.cemefi.org). Dr. Butcher has been Vice-President and Research Chair for the same organization for the past six years. She is also in charge of a National Volunteer Study for Mexico, expecting to publish results this year. She teaches in the Department of Psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

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Alan York is a visiting professor at the Department of Social Work at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia for the current academic year.  He can be reached at: ayork2@gmu.edu.